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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective stony has 3 senses
- stony(s = adj.all) bouldered, bouldery, rocky - abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" Derived form noun stone1
- stony(s = adj.all) flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate - showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" Derived forms noun stone13, noun stone6
- stony(s = adj.all) granitelike, granitic, rocklike - hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
CIDE DICTIONARY
stony, a. [AS. stānig. See Stone.].
- Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. [1913 Webster]
- Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. [1913 Webster]"The stony dart of senseless cold." [1913 Webster]
- Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stony, adj. (stonier, stoniest)
1 full of or covered with stones (stony soil; a stony road).
2 a hard, rigid. b cold, unfeeling, uncompromising (a stony stare; a stony silence).
1 full of or covered with stones (stony soil; a stony road).
2 a hard, rigid. b cold, unfeeling, uncompromising (a stony stare; a stony silence).
Idiom
stony-broke Brit. sl. entirely without money. stony-hearted unfeeling, obdurate.
Derivative
stonily adv. stoniness n.
Etymology
OE stanig (as STONE)
THESAURUS
stony
Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bankrupt, beat, beggared, bony, broke, busted, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cement, cemental, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, coldhearted, concrete, corneous, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, dense, destitute, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat broke, flintlike, flinty, fortuneless, frigid, granitelike, granitic, gravelly, gritty, hard, hard as nails, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, horny, icy, impervious, implacable, indifferent, indigent, indurated, inflexible, insensible, insensitive, intractable, inured, iron-hard, ironbound, ironlike, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, merciless, monolithic, needy, obdurate, oofless, osseous, pachydermatous, pebbled, pebbly, penniless, pitiless, poor, porphyritic, poverty-stricken, proof against, ragged, resistant, resistive, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solid, steeled against, steellike, steely, stone-broke, stonelike, strapped, thick-skinned, tough, trachytic, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsentimental, unsympathetic, wrinkledROGET THESAURUS
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Hardness
N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.
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